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...window of opportunity," he added...
Suddenly, after the puzzling signals began to billow [from the Sistine Chapel chimney], the Vatican's ranking Cardinal-deacon in the Sacred College, appeared at the Window of the Benediction in St. Peter's Basilica. His Latin words boomed out over loudspeakers: "Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum. Habemus Papam!" (I announce to you a great joy. We have a Pope!) "He is the Most Eminent and Most Reverend Lord Cardinal Albino Luciani, who has taken the name of John Paul the First...
...home in the Hollywood Hills, one finds that the benefits of being a top television performer are readily apparent: even the three Porsches in his smartly tiled garage--two vintage, one a 1997 Turbo S--have a view of all Los Angeles. This is thanks to a picture window cut into the garage's wall. Yes, it's nice to be a TV star's car, just as it's nice to be a TV star. And now that even Mikhail Gorbachev has begun doing commercials for Pizza Hut, it seems pointless to argue with the medium that so dominates...
...before, as torrents of mud filled with debris smashed into dwellings with terrifying force. No one died in the Rio Nido slide, but homeowner Gary LaCombe feels lucky to be alive. He vividly remembers watching a tree's mammoth root ball, 12 ft. in diameter, hurtle toward his kitchen window, then veer off at the last minute, narrowly missing his house. Now LaCombe, along with his wife Phyllis and a few hundred of his neighbors, has been evacuated by county officials, barred from returning home because geologists fear that an even larger slide may follow. Says LaCombe, who was forced...
...signed "A. Violence." As he got older, Bob appeared to slip into dementia. In 1974, a delusional Bob fired a gun into another apartment in his building in Staten Island, N.Y. It led to a seven-hour police siege, at the end of which he jumped out the window of the sixth-story apartment, proclaiming...